BILL NUMBER: SB 2006	CHAPTERED  09/29/00

	CHAPTER   851
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 29, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 28, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 30, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 29, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 20, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 10, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 13, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Leslie, Costa, Escutia, Johannessen, Kelley,
Ortiz, and Speier
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Aanestad, Battin, Cox, Gallegos,
House, and Steinberg)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2000

   An act to add Section 130063 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 2006, Leslie.  Health facilities:  seismic building standards.
   Under existing law, after January 1, 2008, general acute care
hospital buildings that are determined to pose certain risks are
required to be improved or only used for nonacute care hospital
service, and after January 1, 2030, all acute care inpatient hospital
buildings that are not in substantial compliance with certain
seismic safety regulations and standards developed by the Office of
Statewide Health Planning and Development are required to be
demolished, replaced, or changed to nonacute use or seismically
retrofitted so that they are in substantial compliance.
   This bill would authorize any hospital, with regard to a general
acute care hospital building located in Seismic Zone 3, to request an
exemption from certain nonstructural requirements if the hospital
building complies with certain year 2002 nonstructural requirements.
The bill would require the office to grant the exemption if certain
conditions are met.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 130063 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   130063.  (a) With regard to a general acute care hospital building
located in Seismic Zone 3 as indicated in the 1995 edition of the
California Building Standards Code, any hospital may request an
exemption from Non-Structural Performance Category-3 requirements in
Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations if the hospital
building complies with the year 2002 nonstructural requirements.
   (b) The office shall determine the maximum allowable level of
earthquake ground shaking potential for purposes of this section.
   (c) To qualify for an exemption under this section, a hospital
shall provide a site-specific engineering geologic report that
demonstrates an earthquake ground shaking potential below the maximum
allowable level of earthquake ground shaking potential determined by
the office pursuant to subdivision (b).
   (d) (1) To demonstrate an earthquake ground shaking potential as
provided in subdivision (c), a hospital shall submit a site-specific
engineering geologic report to the office.
   (2) The office shall forward the report received from a hospital
to the Division of Mines and Geology in the Department of
Conservation for purposes of a review.
   (3) If, after review of the analysis, the Division of Mines and
Geology concurs with the findings of the report, it shall return the
report with a statement of concurrence to the office.  Upon the
receipt of the statement, if the ground shaking potential is below
that established pursuant to subdivision (b), the office shall grant
the exemption requested.
   (e) A hospital building that is eligible for an exemption under
this section shall meet the January 1, 2030, nonstructural
requirement deadline if the building is to be used for general acute
care inpatient services after January 1, 2030.
   (f) A hospital requesting an exemption pursuant to this section
shall pay the actual expenses incurred by the office and the Division
of Mines and Geology.
   (g) All regulatory submissions to the California Building
Standards Commission made by the office for purposes of this section
shall be deemed to be emergency regulations and shall be adopted as
emergency regulations.  This emergency regulation authority shall
remain in effect until January 1, 2004.
